Quotes About Time

We must also be willing to take time to nourish connection that exists between our partners and ourselves.

The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life...

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

I love the coffee for staining your teeth, and warming your palms in the morning. I would protect you till the end of time. I would lie down, in the middle of tornado, and cover you.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

Bartlett tried to understand what Tyson was saying. October 15 was 196 days earlier.

Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.

It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta'*, which precedes even the section on ritual purity, is on the times of the prayer. It is the times of prayer that obligate purity. Observing the times of prayer is the first thing we do when we wake and the last thing we do before retiring to bed; it is done in the middle of the day and in its decline. It is an unrelenting reminder of to whom we belong, why we are here, and where we are going.

Whatever has happened, there is always that magic winter haunting and hurting me with its marvelous echoes. The shortest days of the year, when nothing had begun and nothing had ended, all the roads of life were alive, and time beat round me like a heart.

Unni will come, if not today, then tomorrow. Today is nearly gone, but other todays stir fecund in the word tomorrow, many other todays when this one has lapsed from existence. And because I think of Unni, invoking his name in this for ever recurrent today, already he is here for me." - The Mountain is Young

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Love cannot be measured by its duration...

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

History has a way of doing that. People appreciate it more the longer it lasts.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

Don't waste you youth by growing up !

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.